The introduction to the following text was
written by ourselves on request of the editors of the Italian quarterly
ASSEMBLEA.

Introduction

The ruling magic is the magic of the rulers (iatromagic).But magic is method and activity. Always.

The very fundamental matter however, the matter illness
(materia malattia), the universal and materialistic illness (malattia materialistica
universale), the autonomous and independent illness, pathenciate (pathenciate,
not potenciate, not to make potencies --, to raise illness to the strength
of illness!), fundamentum not only of the explication of all (iatrocide
instead of homeopathy! Pathoastry instead of astrology! etc., etc.,!);
no spiritualism, neither diagnosticians nor experts or technicians! No
medicine at all, no medicine for any illness: pathopractical warfare.

Some Italian prisoners asked for a revolutionary
culture of illness (ASSEMBLEA No6, June-August
1984). The following article is our contribution. It is the result of experiences
which we had to expound 1979, certainly to the wrong people, but at least
by that we could make it public. How it all began, about that informs a
statement by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Iatroclasm

In the Collettivo Freudiano up to now it is
possible that front patients speak actively. This time about the Intellectual
and the Arts. Front patients from the Patients’ Front (PF): the founding
root of the felled but, in defiance of certain announcements to the contrary,
never prohibited or banned Socialist Patients’ Collective (SPK). Iatroclasm
[Iatroklasie], chosen on our own, after Iatrocracy (1976)
and
Iatrarchy
(1977),expounds matters of principal importance. The
experimental focus is thermomimetics, which brings the intellect
back to earth, from where it originates (intellurect), and gives the farewell
to the arts (education, statecraft and euthanasia, equally) as well as
to the medical doctor, who has abdicated, definitively.

It was necessary to elaborate anew mainly mass-theoretical and anthropological
basics …

From the somatotherms on the way to the unworthy life.

L(o)stile
Armando Verdiglione

With "aggression", Iatroclasm has absolutely nothing to do. Out of medical
treatment rooms, cabinets and studios of all kinds, and out of Latin textbooks,
aggression not only stinks to high heaven but also of racial hygiene.

In confrontation to that: Iatroclasm, the intelligence of Earth that
all share in common, the intelligence of the stupid, the oldest
and the newest one, their intellect, the damned well known
[die ruchbar gewordene] confrontation unfolding itself in the tellurical!
Intelligence is intellurence. As both stomach and earth revolting
revolution, as pathomagic infection process [double sense, Ansteckungsprozess,
here signifying: to set fire to something or somebody, compare: I am feverish],
it is closest to nuclear fusion, but it is out of relation to the politics
of aggression.

Broken crockery brings you luck [Scherben bringen Glueck]?
But there remains nothing to be smashed, not even the very act itself of
smashing. The atom has already been smashed. The same happened to its smashing.
At the temporary end of that smashing, there is the clinic of ein-Stein
(monolithic stone). It looks as if only in New York. At the beginning of
the smashed Tables of the Law there is ENTELLUS [ENTELLO], then Moses with
the Ten Commandments ("I am the Lord, thy Healer", 2 Moses 15, 26). FRIEDRICH
ENGELS has smashed the iconoclasts and the machine wreckers verbally and
in writing. Iconoclasm continues to be smashed lucklessly still nowadays,
analytically and always in search for the lost sexuality. The osteoclast-theory
from the past century, which was up to explain at least the so-called "natural"
death, namely by attributing it to bone caries [Knochenfrass], that
highest medical achievement of smashing has been smashed by time. To smash
the smashing, that works. But HEIL [healing] cannot and is not willing
to heal.
Out of the innards of their victims, humans and animals: by reading*
[lesend; in German double sense: to read and to collect], entera-legens,
inter-legens, intelligent and with insight, mischievously smiling augurs:
in that shape we know the medical priests already from the tradition of
the antiquity. Tearing out the innards of those who are still incapable
to defend themselves in another way, electing one another, forming elites,
that’s their straw-dry archetype, their elictus, their inter-lectintellect,
from HERAKLIT to C.G.JUNG and HEIDEGGER, from Dr.Mengele-Auschwitz to burnt
Earth and beyond that.

* Note for fun and pleasure of the readers; taken down
by the translator:
The con-textual relations developed in this passage, which are based
mainly on German language use, might be more obvious to the English reader,
if he knows, that in almost all European languages the verb ‘to read’ is
derived from Latin legere (French: lire, German: lesen), meaning also:
‘to gather up’, ‘to collect’, ‘to select’, etc., while in English the verb
is derived from the Old Saxon verb redan, meaning: ‘to advise’, ‘explain’,
‘rule’ (cf. the name of the Anglo-Saxon King Zpelred (968-1016) – good
counsel and his epithet Unred – no counsel, or not well advised). It is
also connected to ‘riddle’ via the notion of interpretation.

The experimentum crucis of the tellurical intellect,
of the intellurect, is the wasting fever [Zehrfieber], the
gnawing anger at one’s belly, first vomiting everything in bile, then enemy
of all egocentrism and of all pathocentrism*: hunger for society
[Gesellschaftshunger] and dissolution of any structure [Gestaltaufloesung],
both in-one [in-Eins, aristotelisch: zugleich], Intellurect,
directly!
There’s no between whatsoever or whomever, there is not any mediation.

* all what refers to exploitation of illness, thus principally
the jacker (physician).

Well, think it over once more and well: only the entera encephala,
head and belly, are inter-legens. And they continue to be it, still
with a crammed full belly, and still between the meals, even between the
lines, and occasionally going against the grain. Roughly between mesencephal
and mesenteral, in brief: inter-lectual, is licking and leaking the taste,
the good one [leckt der Geschmack, der gute]. Because "the head
is the cooling machine of the belly", says Aristotle, the Best. The reading
intellect, however, has got its venia legendi only for the quicksand, the
concomitant
phenomena of the iatroclastic DElirancy. In the inter-legal case of
doubtful legality, that is in the normal case, it becomes even iatro-legal.
The intellect is either iatroclasm, or it is therapist of selection.

No, no back to nature. By neither part. The HEIL (healing) is
supernatural and supersensorial, and therefore pure of scars. Covered by
scars, it would be clay, earthen, terra = drought [terra = Doerre].
Scars are always on the part of the stupid, of the mente capti,
of those with hurt brains, of those with destroyed senses, certainly and
truly, and stupidity and destruction of senses are for their part scars.
That makes them so intellectual, so subterranean; in brief: intellurent.

What we want to be kept in mind of this introduction is only this: Scars
are, firstly, the prophets and foretellers of the stupid ones, anticipating
future weather, earthquakes and firedampas
well, and scars are, secondly, the abysses of our anamnestic flashes of
inspiration. This before all.

Scars are defying any vaginal symbolism, any castration theory, any
description and any other scalpel. Scars do not obey [hoeren:
to listen, to obey] to NIETZSCHE’s general amnesia in favour of the medical-doctors-as-super-humans
[Arzt-ueber-Menschen], as they do not listen or obey [hoeren
auf] to his scolding against the resentments of "those who get
less than their share". And they do not listen or obey to SCHOPENHAUER’s
health-favouring mnemotechnical recommendations either. They do not
stop
at all [auf-hoeren], but they keepon
feeling in advance and feeling again everything [alles vormerken, allem
nachspueren]. It is to themselves, that they are pathologically
obedient as if they were keeping themselves in bondage or as if they
were succubi of themselves [hoerig nur sich selbst, Selbstbegattung,
see Hegel] on to auto-mediation, liberating themselves from the polarity
within the sex [bis zur geschlechterfreien Selbstbegattung]. That’s
their basic relation to sexuality.
We know, and that not only since yesterday, which intentions were hidden
behind the "slavish erotic obedience" and the "bondage" [Hoerigkeit],
a term, used by the physicians - outside of their discipline, but abusing
the law - to translate the first total smashing down of any relation between
physician and patient into a language which is as significant - being the
medical monopoly of interpretation - as effective in passing to punishment
and "justice" as their appendix: 268 months of prison, lacking more effective
insecticides (SPK, 1970).Acuity and keenness in hearing woven out of scars, however, constitute
a mass-infection, because its central organ is Earth. That’s the formula
of our immediate pathomagical reality of experience, if it is about
to achieve a change in the being-so, by means of infecting ill [das
Andersmachen des Soseins im Kranksein].

No prescription, but formula of production: principle Iatroclasm:
Earth and masses being short-circuited through infection, ignition
and inflammation [Ansteckung]. Strictly speaking, an extensively
dissipated mode of weaving, no formula, and certainly not in the sense
of the tellexitur, in brief: texture of Latin-textbook-humanists
instigating plots between governors (always in consequence directed against
the masses).

The classical formula of mass infection has become surpassed
by the reality of illness(since SPK 1971), which this formula
is unable to grasp as being free of medical doctors.

Principle Iatroclasm: masses are coming up as one body of
the unlimited life that is repelling triumphantly the medical doctors’
affair of procreation and nutrition, Plato's whole status of nutrition,
schooling and military [Naehrstand, Lehrstand samt Wehrstand] in
the process of its accomplishing coming up, that is in the tellonical.

Who is founding mass-theories on love, on that half of a portion
of Eros, only does not belong to the doctors because he is a medical
doctor himself. In the mass-theoretical structure-formula made of
love, withdrawal of love and family, of thesis, anti-thesis and conciliation,
which is equal to institution, anti-institution and health, unfortunately,
the most important element as to its authorship is missing: the
archi-dyade therapistpatient. According to iatroclastic love-experiences,
that cannot be otherwise. The therapistpatient–dyade is nothing
but the so-called IN-divi-dual. It is true that it is gauged and
standardized extremely well on the normal temperature. However,
just a few fractions above 37° C degree, there is its infectious, igniting
and inflaming [infektioes] melting-point. The "individual" knows
infection,
ignition
and inflammation [Ansteckung] only from its fear of becoming
infected, ignited, inflamed. To be well-understood: as
fear of infection
[Ansteckungsangst], of vermin, bacilli, viruses, wanted children
there included.

In the system of the mass-theoretical structure-formula [Konstitutionsformel]
made of health, reconciliation and family, and in politics in general,
lacks illness [ist Krankheit nicht drin]. The fear of infection
of the well-tempered is politicizing the feverish at every step. With what
then? With health!

The infectious, igniting and inflaming in the infection process is namely
and of course warmth. Warmth melts the partaking and collaborating
into doing all otherwise [schmilzt das Mitmachen in das Andersmachen
um]. There’s nothing with to show or to fool, nothing to be imitated,
no theatre, no school, nothing to be transferred, nothing to be identified,
nothing to be suggested [suggerieren], nothing to be hypnotized,
no super-humans, no primitive hordes, no leaders and no charisma. Warmth
is the mimesis of doing all otherwise. Not even the strongest form
can endure that, no formula, ever.

Iatroclasm even of the arch-iatry, and even a stone softening
one: minerals as viruses, cattle-like creatures and microscopic
small vegetables, as species of bacteria and tribes of microbes,
join, are just there, start, are splitting in twains, because warmth
goes right through, invisible [uebersehbar], inaudible [ueberhoerbar],
but
igniting [ansteckend].

All erogenous half-measures [erogene Halbheiten] received and
sent out in the surroundings of illness, that is to say: signals as disgust,
pain, stink, accusation and complaint, are acting as germs of the thermomimetic
dynamics in direction of the human species, melted, thus in-dividuated:
program to become realized [zu machendes Gattungsindividuum]
by Iatroclasm: these signals are making aware of warmth and are making
bemused and dazed, intellurectal, thus forging a body scheme
that consists of masses and that is coming up in masses. The thermal
scheme of the imponderable embodiment. A giant body like clouds, floating
in the air, becoming free of every structure [riesiger Schwebekoerper],
being however just the same as the one made of tiny viruses and bacteria
in
situ, that is in the innards. Prototypical intellurect, at the
same time an iatroclastical antibiotic to all types and models.

But how is there the possibility of Iatroclasm [in the sense of Bedingungen
der Moeglichkeit synthetischer Urteile a priori, cf. Kant] with respect
to more and more deformities, handicaps [Behinderungen, who and
what hinders?] and disturbances (who or what disturbs whom?), how does
that go together, how does that agree with each other? Should the retarded
in the very end even serve us as a model [Vorbild]? Coagulated Iatroclasm?
We, the artificial prosthesis from the medical doctor’s hand, are we the
monsters?

Who asks like that, does not really ask. He is living on that, he earns
his living from it. And in most cases not a bad one.

Warmth lives neither from love nor from the withdrawal of love, not
even from compassion, and not at all from the air and great fuss that love
makes about suffering, for love’s sake. Warmth wastes the Gestalt
(configuration,
mould, guise, structure, figure, shape), just as each illness does.
Its foodstuffs consist in the life of Iatroclasm in each sort of waste
and well-shaped appearance [Wohlgestalt].

Illness is not only dialogically and dialectically stable and solid
against any deprivation [entzugsstabil], but it is
also incredibly stable and solid in the systematical penal execution
[im
Strafvollzug], and in this it is a real infection, ignition
and inflammation [reale Ansteckung], just as otherwise only the
myth,
the igniting wildfire [das zuendende Lauffeuer].

The deprivation of food, hunger, famine and thirst are consuming
solely
the structure [Gestalt], but not the substance, which is warmth;
the co-participating state of being [mit-teilende Zustandsweise]
has as its counterpart the structure [Gestalt], the proportion (see
below), but not the coldness, not even so much as in portions.

The truth of the Gestalt, its quality [Gutheit,
Guete], and its beauty, would be a perfect one at minus 273,16°
Celsius = 0° Kelvin. That is perhaps the most dangerous issue concerning
the arché [Das ist das wohl Bedenklichste an der Arché].
Even medical doctors are said to have noticed that. For Dr. med J. Robert
Mayer (Metamorphosis and Mechanical Heat Equivalent, the matter with the
calories) from this resulted a lifelong coercive treatment, and that even
among his colleagues in Heilbronn (a German town, literally: ‘Fount
of Heal’).
Warmth neither exists in latency nor in halves. And the Earth as the central
organ of infection, ignition and inflammation and of the masses [als
Zentralorgan
von Ansteckung und Massen] is always the true middle [a-letheia]
of the effusive nonsense, the stupid exuberance of the affects. The astronautics
teaches that even to those who did not know it, at the latest at their
return to Earth. And Heaven? In Heaven there is the good uncle Dr.med.
LE BON (1789 ff.), claustrophobic family doctor, schoolmaster of the mass-theory,
already for quite a long time. And Joseph Goebbels (1945 ff.), his last
model pupil [Meisterschueler], Hitler’s airy-fairy propaganda
broadcaster [Propaganda-Luftikus], probably too. W.Reich’s
mass psychology of fascism (1933 ff.) continues being restricted to
the family. Each halfway modern family doctor (1968 ff.) is taking
care of that.

Principle of Iatroclasm: all the answers, and of
course all the systems of production, reproduction and excretion, are epoché,
that is to say extinguished. Even the harmless question, in form
of the question about the good digestion and its loamy figure [Lehm-Gestalt]
put on the doctor’s round at the private ward on Sunday, the question about
the penultimate Golem, falls under the hermeneutic plays on winds [Windspiele],
numinous omina of a Iatrarchy groaning under its golemistic fart.
As to the so-called body of the blessed Court’s President SCHREBER,
still being Gestalt as always: the same. Principle Iatroclasm is
the question, ascertained as question with scientific severity [Frage,
streng wissenschaftlich als Frage erfragt], either impulse driven–mythomaniac-warmth-specific
[triebhaft-mythoman-waermespezifisch] questioning or it is
se-lection, se-lective Iatroinquisition. To Hell, Heal and Crematorium
we’ll come back polyphonically [fuglich] further on.

The con-sequent question of principle about the Iatroclastical
[Die Frage nach dem Iatroklastischen]: concerning the prince-ity
[Prinzenschaft], princesses and princes, evokes the floating
body [Schwebekoerper] of warmth, mimesis and masses. And in no case
neither the worldly nor God’s court jester, neither August nor Hiob. For:
this, our prince-ity is ill-disposed to the Gestalt, and this principally.
We can therefore presume our prince-ity being to be found everywhere and
nowhere, but in no case it can be individuated into a Gestalt
and in those who represent the Gestalt [Sachwalter
= administrators]: the Arche-iaters, within any scheme of culture
and princ-ery. Our imposition and claim: to increase warmth up to the point,
where it re-volts into the states of fever surpassing the limits of any
structure [Gestalt]. Even stiffness [Starre] must be free
of the Gestalt, or at least deformed, but never rigor mortis,
rather alike a sardonic grimace [risussardonicus,
sardonische
Grimasse] if need be.

Our prince-ity, cadres, heroes and avant-gardes, if one likes, consist
in the thermomimetic monsters, precisely in those whose capacity is exceeding
that of the central computer, and even more so the powers of imagination
[Vorstellungskraft] of the ‘wanted’ poster. The interrogatory
impulse, the mythomanical impulse [der mythomane Fragetrieb],
therefore, if by way of exception it thinks at all (electro-magnetic field!
ingniting actuality), has certainly no intention of separating the prince-ity
from the masses, and does not think at all of that. Because of its
being ill [krankhaft], it feeds on and off [zehrt er sehr
selbstvergessen von] all the form-differences, up to the point to forget
itself, melting them down and converting them, and, what is the same, it
continues feeding on them [zehrt auf], it forgets the answer,
wants to remain stuck to the question, until it boils over, and it does
not answer, but answersfor all [antwortet nicht, verantwortet],
is pre-cizing a DIFFERENT reality, in defiance of the being-so reality
[prae-zisiert das ANDERS dem So-Sein zum Trotz].

Warmth is not only infra-red. It is even Iatroclasm against all external
light: Flesh-colored like Earth’s hot tempered core made of nickel-iron,
incarnat colour hostile to cold, sparkling and oscillating flesh, the one
with the transversal stripes at the cells of the heart muscle and the smooth
one in the stomach, which generates and spreads its own light. No screen,
no cathode-ray oscillograph can arrest it. A telluric body illuminating
from its own source, a body that is liberating itself from any structuring
[Gestalt]: iatroclastic intellect.

It is permanently roving, but it is something which juts out of the
routine, which does not fit, in which is perceptible this revolution [Er
ist dauernd auf der Walz und in Dauerumwaelzung].

To the image-caring and calorie-conscious health-citizens it is an alarm
signal, to the politicians an up to now still affordable tribute to progress,
to the medical doctors an opportunity good enough to launch one euthanasia
campaign after the other, in the WFMH
(World Federation for Mental Health)-style: treacherously, through
surreptitious advertising; here, therefore, clearly spoken: they
are to be frozen out, they are to be killed [kaltmachen],
firstly, because they are expensive, and secondly, because they are monsters
[Erstens sind sie teuer und zweitens Ungeheuer].

Who are "they"? First of all, they are those who have nothing
to offer, nothing to spread but a piece of warmth of fusion, made
cold and inoffensive by the myth of the Brownian molecular motion, those
who are deformed from birth [Mißgeburten], the monsters, the
deformed, the dysplastic ones, precisely those heavily built [grob-schlaechtig,
cf. a-syn-metric] of the so-called ictafin, falling [hinfaelligen]
constitutional type. Thus [halt] those with twain [zwieschlaechtigen]
dimensions, those with the enormous growth over their backside,
those
with the brainless frog-like head, those with too much hand and
foot, too much, too little and without, the "waterspouts", the gargoyles,
mongoloids and Siamese twins, and others, in brief: all those, to whose
Earth-warm intellect is attributed the name mooncalf [Mondkalb],
to make us forget, that their intellect still knows about terrestrial warmth.
According to experience not yet that old, even the most intelligent humanism,
the humanistic intellectual, prefers to connect the cow-warm intellect,
which has just been sketched, with everything else but with Earth. And
the least with oneself of course, but the most likely with muddy earth.

Thus in the Socialist Patients’ Collective, at the last minute
and just-easy-come-already-easy-gone, and that because of our obstinate
hold on the decisively telluric-orientated body-scheme of the revolution,
in spring 1971, we lost our last allies: a representative of the Humanistische
Union of the West and a Marxist intellectual of the East. "Comrades, one
thing must be as clear as sun-light: The revolution out of illness is idiocy
[Schwachsinn], such a revolution will never happen, even with you",
he said, directing himself to the exit (of de GDR to the USSR) [sprach's
in Richtung Ausgang]. It is quite there, right next to the exit, where
certainty can be found (Note taken down 1979 - ). In deed and in doing
[In der Tat]! Dead certain certainty of illness alone
creates [schafft]. Just as the warmth of Earth during the winter
the separation as ground ice, and the community of the human species [Gemeinschaft
der Gattung]. Certainty is the mechanism of illness, the earth’s
axis of the intelluric in the iatroclastic warmth-stream.
The most important thing about certainty is this one: to create [schaffen].
HEGEL, with quite enough difficulty, has abolished the sensory certainty
[sinnliche Gewissheit], MARX the truth and certainty of the spirit
[Verblendungszusammenhang, Ideologie- und Idealismuskritik], and
FREUD, by his thanatophil final vote, even the certainty of HEIL (curing)
[Heilsgewissheit]. What remains to be created always and everywhere
is the certainty of illness in all, in each and everybody.

This certainty, activated as mechanism, is re-volutionizing all, the
reversability, from the inner to the outside, nauseating to the outside
[das anekelnde Auswendige], the exteriorizing melting pot of all
Gestalten
(configurations, moulds, guises, structures, figures, shapes), senses,
signs and significants (Lacan, Sartre), ponderabilities and weights, of
all orientation, of all institutions and of all rules [Aus- und Einrichtungen],
symmetries and metric systems whatsoever.

In Warmth there is nothing, that cannot be let aside [Der Waerme
geht alles ab]. Not only weight and Gestalt, proportion, function
and structure. There are no medical doctors specialists for warmth. For
the rest there are doctors specialists for everything. For instance, logotherapists,
opticians and otologists, dermatologists and psychiatrists, internists
and externists, balneologists and who knows for what else, but warmth,
especially as a fever-fanal, is the liberated body. Nothing
with sense (meaning) and understanding, there’s no money in that, nothing
for medical specialists, but a symptom for everybody, a common symptom
[Allerweltssymptom].

It’s because of the fever that the medical doctors bundle one into
the mortuary [artificial winter dormancy (hibernation), neuroleptics, ice-packs],
to the tropics (malaria cure, Pyrifer), to the howitzers (atomic warheads,
cobalt bombs), or to the thunder storm front (lie-detector, electroshocks).
In warmth not only the earth’s core is crossing with flesh but also the
most criminal ease in mind [straeflichster Leichtsinn] with the
most profound intellect. Being symptom of total reality awareness [Symptom
totaler Realitaetsfindung], symptom per excellence, everything
falls to warmth [faellt der Waerme alles zu]. Everyone bears it
[Jeder bringt sie mit]. There’s no coldness without warmth. Certainty
[Gewissheit] is the mechanism of this connection between warmth
and coldness, a connection only in direction from warmth to coldness, irrefutable
in the violent shivering fit, which starts with the fever. A striking
certainty even still in one’s
conscience [Gewissen], whose
ardour is preceding the coldness.

Provided the thermomimetical state of warmth, all bodies are forming
one body, thus constituting a magico-IN-FORMational connection [magischer
IN-FORMationszusammenhang] in which form and Gestalt are being
melted off, being ill in sympathy. Provided the thermomimetical state of
warmth, all the terrestrial and celestial bodies, the warm and the cold
ones, are coherently constituting one unique area-continuum, an
expanded and extended terrestrial connection: the most profound intellect,
the forgotten giant tellus* (plate, disc) [Riesenteller],
Teller
(plate) whose determination is not eating [Essen], but to make you
forget [verg-essen] that everything and everybody has to stay
as they are, that's a matter of conscientiousness, so to say obsessive,
anancastic conscientiousness, destiny, and the most criminal ease in mind
[straeflichster Leichtsinn], that is no sense at all, no senses
[ueberhaupt kein Sinn, keine Sinne], but conscience of sympathy
as the certainty of illness against the every Gestalt [gegen
die jeweilige Gestalt].

* (Note of the translator, superfluous
in our context)
Telluric
(tellur-, tellus: earth, personified in Roman mythology as Tellus,
the goddess of the earth and of marriages and fertility, associated with
the Greek Gaea.)

terrestrial

being or relating to a natural electric current flowing near the earth's
surface

Tellurium (tellus): a semi-metallic element
The point is, that, in the body-continuum penetrated through by warmth,
it can never be the midpoint or centre, let alone the centre of
gravity
[Schwerpunkt]. But the point is rather its continuous course
into the most eccentric "misshapen figure", that is no figure [Gestalt]
at all, no point at all, but tellus. In the same way, the intellect,
for the mere reason of the warmth alone, can never have anything to do
with concentration, centrality and things like that. It is not even distracted,
but multi-focal expansion, crooked and ill as the "misshapen figure", fold-duplication,
symptomatically double folded [Doppelfalte], and not simple folded,
no simplicity [nicht Einfalt], but
tellus in re-volution
[Umbruch].

The real contents and the full concretion of all the hitherto expounded
explanations [Ausfuehrungen] and connections, easy said and easy
done, and no sooner said than done, is called thermomimetics [Thermomimetik].
Shapeless, because floatingly in hold steadily [in Halt],
really
contents [Inhalt], full concretion, because
of its being entirely state-of-warmth-symptom; instead of libido, to and
fro, now and then, by installments, zero-sum game.

Rolling upside down, unrolling and rolling up the whole matter now from
thermomimetics,
is precisely that what formerly has been the in-formed
tellect
[In-formierter tellekt], here just only telos, the
end [Ende]: ultimate strive and aim to mouth and lead into the
Other
[Endzweck, ins Anders einzumuenden]. No moreentelechia-intellect,
but directly intellurect. Directly that piece of warmth that we
are on the whole [im Grossen und Ganzen] that embodies thermomimetically
the iatroclastic permanent protest against the arché in all
and everybody.

In every single one and in every situation [ganz im Einzelnen],
one grasps the thermomimetics simply by first of all
warming up
oneself for warmth [sich fuer die Waerme erwaermen]. It is not enough
to become heated about this or that. Strictly speaking, nobody imagines
what thermomimetics is.

It is not photogenic, not stereotypic, not stereophonic, not stereo-metric,
it is a disposition, that’s sure, but no stereo device, ever [Anlage
gewiss, aber nie Stereoanlage].

For the Other, as has been proved, even the infrared night vision aid
was of no use in the chain of circumstantial evidence against the front
patients (SPK 1972).

Strictly speaking, nothing can be said, written, thought or felt about
warmth. That’s because normally one does not feel nor notice it.
That’s intelligent, but is produced out of fear [gescheit kommt von
gescheut]. Permanently and fervently one has to warm up oneself. That’s
what one is already doing reproductively, productively however only in
the "metabolism" [Stoffwechsel], in the exchange of substance [Wechsel
des Stoffs] against the structure [Gestalt]. There is
nothing else, one has grasped and got concerning our hereditary patrimony
and all other concerns.

To achieve change by thermomimetizising [probeaendern],
for thermomimetizising is thermomimetics at any rate. Otherwise it was
none at all.
This makes by the way that thermomimetics differs fundamentally from
the merely recognizing, and therefore at best test-practicing [probe-handelnden,
cf. FREUD], that is commodities bargaining and exchanging intelligence.
What the voice is for the intelligence, is the warmth for Iatroclasm. The
tertium
comparationis of intelligence and voice [Stimme] is the equiValent,
equ(iv)al to indifferent health, health in the expression of balance, good
form or tone, mood [Stimmung], and even correspondence (adaequatio
rei et intellectus), correctness and verticality: the ordinary (full
professor of medicine) at the hospital bed, and the pithekanthropos erectus
too, a first ancestor, if it pleases you.

In thermomimetics, however, there is the Other. There’s no tertium,
no comparationis. In warmth, there is the utmost bodily tension,
the effort of figure-free incarnation [gestaltfreie Verkoerperung]
in the whole, vapor under tension, tension, tonos as such. The tone
is perishing in warmth, dies, and dying are as well any sound and language.
The voice is loosing its balance in the glissando, gathering chromatically
the dissonance, lamenting, screaming, breaking, as does the eye with light.
The voice of the patient is croaking, the register is up and down
a flat one, the infection, ignition and inflammation [Ansteckung]
is extending, achieving dis-measure (excess), surpassing depth,
width, length and point.

It is only by warmth that indifference (equivalence!) can be
questioned radically, that is fundamentally, in a redundant
tellurical manner, redundant of and in defiance of all geology and
informatics whatsoever. That’s because even spatial limitations are thermomimetically
and in their matter solvable in the material coherence of the Other.
Warmth is denying all the dimensions and presents us the legendary
Other
in the excess [Aus-Mass]: the possibility in principle to really
dissolve also the language connection, the chaotic coherence, Babel, dissolving
it by activating oneself at all fronts where the iatroclastic experience
of being patient is the principle of expansion, be it by communicating,
be it by being communicated, and there is no form, no Gestalt, able
to impede it. There exists only thermomimetic transsubstantiation.
The rest is quicksilver [Quecksilber], thermometer and ignition
cap, the initial trigger of every quack [Quacksalber]. However,
it cannot contain the warmth, not even bear it.

In warmth, quicksilver and quack (doctors) are fugitive according
to the laws of the substance dynamics, and, as experience teaches, they
cannot be stopped either, being more free-flowing than water, superfluous
quick-silvery, and, to be precise, not three-folded [dreifaeltig],
but thirteen times one [dreizehnfach]. This can be checked, exactly,
by
achieving change by thermomimetizising [probeaendern].
In the previous explanations [discussions sensu proprio] on mass
theory and monsters, manifestations [Erscheinungen] of the thermomimetic
transsubstantiation are being roughly anticipated. Manifestations
that exist, that have existed all the time, and that are existing
more and more in masses. Manifestations and appearances [Erscheinungen]
that, for precisely this reason, are no appearances at all, and
they cannot be dismissed neither as figments of the mind [Hirngespinste]
nor as ghosts.

Must one not instantaneously warm up oneself for them, isn't it?, for
how they are nevertheless embodying themselves - being mockery and scorn
in every misshapen figure [Missgestalt] -, and for how they are
embodying themselves demonstratively [demonstrativ] beyond
the Gestalt, as demon-stratifying [daemonstratifizierende]
cloud of warmth, being matter of this Earth, but coherent, en-tellurically
coherent? You must warm up to it, indeed! Only that in the past they did
not call in the warmth, not that appearing and manifest [erscheinenden]
telluric connection that, after all, has got the advantage that it really
exists, but they rather did call in either hell, deep down in earth, or
the hygiene crematorium, flame upwards.

Is thermomimetics, according to that, turning into a technique, into
pyrotechnics? Of course not [Ach wo]. Only the single thing [Einzel(l)Ding]
of the infinite (the individual, the dyade doctorpatient), whose condition
[Be-ding-ung, in the sense of Kant] is indeed the imperative,
the categorical "you must" (the "recipe (take ...")). The Be-stimm-ung,
the vocal determination (literally: give voice to any object, compare
vocabulary)*,
imperative and category, as already is indicated in its name, resides in
the Stimme (voice). The hell comes from the voice,
and from the imperative voice comes certainly also the hygiene-crematorium:
NAME IST SCHALL UND RAUCH (WHAT ABOUT NAME, IT'S NOTHING BUT SOUND AND
SMOKE) and NOMEN EST OMEN. (For less instead of more: the General Medical
Council, the Goethe-Institute, and the Cabbala, and thereupon poets and
mathematicians).

*In order to render at best the meaning of the German noun
'Bestimmung' in English, which is usually translated with ‘determination’
or ‘definition’, the adjective ‘vocal’ (from ‘voice’ = 'Stimme'
in German) was attributed to the substantive ‘determination’. Strictly
speaking, the English term (determination) does not even approximately
render the German term 'Bestimmung' in its literal meaning, which
is derived from the vast semantic field of 'Stimme' = ‘voice’, thus
including:
(1) the verb 'stimmen' = ‘to tune a musical instrument, a machine,
an engine, ‘one’s style’, etc.’. ‘to raise higher or lower the pitch of
one’s voice / a musical instrument’.
(2) In relation to (1) Germans use the verb 'stimmen' in the
expression: 'das stimmt' or 'das stimmt nicht' = ‘That’s
correct’ or ‘that is not correct’ in order to state that something (a situation,
a relation, etc.) is in a state of being in proper pitch (or not).
(3) It is only in consequence of the invasion of scientific language
use in every day life, that the German word 'bestimmen' has been
replaced little by little by the term 'Definition' and 'Determination',
both deriving from Latin and meaning ‘to set borders to something’, that
is ‘to exclude more or less all relations that are considered not proper
to describe that something’, the latter being mainly and fundamentally
a question of power to impose what has to be included in a term, and what
not.
Also, it should be mentioned that (4) Germans are usually not aware
of the connections expounded in this text. For a further reading the reader
may refer to the following writings of illness of the Patients’ Front:
to the already mentioned Numbers
and Supernumeraries, and to the text Against
all science. And in German language the book: Utopathie
vorweg, page 19, 37, 67 and 72.
(Note of the translator)

In the voice, there is still no warmth yet, still no cold yet, let alone
melt
[Schmelz:
melt, mellifluousness]. Neither mechanically, nor metaphorically. It
makes no difference whether, as a vocal chord apparatus, it is running
on the spot without progressing [bewegt auf der Stelle tritt], and
be it even by falling in tremolo and vibrato, or whether, as a ghostly
echo reverberating with and out of primeval rocks, it is citing the medical
doctor, just as once did Moses with his TELLO, and O-Desdemona in the
bedchamber with hers.

In what consists the voice, the eternal re-gress stepping in the same
spot, is turning around two poles, around two names in any Gestalt:
the MEDICAL DOCTOR and the ARCHE.

Therein everything is in form: trade and change, Hermes and
the hermeneutics; theft, property & the gospel [Evangelium];
balance and ear, within the pars petrosa of the temporal bone being one
sensory apparatus, one dicasterium (court’s jurisdiction,
condemnation verdict) [Spruchkammer, Urteilsspruch];
the quack’s mercurials: fulminate of quicksilver [Knallquecksilber],
thermometer & detonator; and on Wednesday in the afternoon, Sakramerkur!
(curse), doctor-free consulting hour on his day off [Sprechstunde
arztfrei].
It’s only a matter of form that the medical doctor always prescribes
and by writing makes mistakes [ver-schreibt, mis-acting,
Fehlhandlung], forgets (himself) [ver-gisst], even is missing
his grip [Fehlhandlung] and is laying hands on somebody [ver-greift],
- -: he on his own, he himself [verschreibt, vergisst, ja sogar vergreift,
SICH]. That’s not because the technique, the pyrotechnics is demanding
more and more of the doctor. In order to fake warmth, which is in
no way contained in the ARCHE, he’s got to heat hell, to make use of the
hygiene crematorium, and of the whole architheatre of Mercury and
Prometheus. That’s because the medical doctor is also an ARTIST, an ideational
mass-artist, and a material universal worker [geistfluechtiger Kunstgewerbler,
bestoffelnder Gesamtarbeiter].

An ideational mass–artist just of the dis-sociation and
splitting,
and a material universal worker just of the simulation and arché-fiction!

The pure arché, temperature-free and therefore being a
total one, will always remain fiction. That’s why the chasm between the
medical doctor and the arché is an unbridgeable dichotomy,
while he himself, as the virtuoso of living a lie [Virtuose der
Lebensluege],
is being continually challenged; the "service" being his illusionists’
work, the lege-artis-method his omnipresent alibi, being both nothing but
a stopgap of what is called Image with the artist (Image like imagination,
a serial product of Echo – Narciss & Goldmouth: just as love, its withdrawal
& etc.).

It’s but a matter of form [Formsache] whether it is a
brilliant artistic firework [kuenstlerisches Brillantfeuerwerk]
or euthanasia pyrotechnics. The main thing is to have frozen them, to have
them neutralized [kaltgestellt], or, what is more, to situate them
into the context of the arché, which is no context at all,
because there is no arché as such.

In the examples "Nitrolingual" and "Group-Ego" we discovered
en miniature, already in 1970, the reciprocal relation between pyrotechnics
and thermomimetics as being made concrete.

The nitro-substance causes an instantaneous and temporary hot flush,
as soon as it is melting in the mouth. Owing to the fact that this substance
is available only on medical prescription, patients suffering from pain
of annihilation [Vernichtungsschmerz] (threatened really by coronary
death!) are entirely at the mercy of their medical doctors in a way only
addicts are. In this regard, they are pyrotechnical objects of therapy.
Because of their being SPK patients, they were instantly put on withdrawal.
The saying of the clinic director was the following: Nitrolingual
contains dynamite which might also be used against the medical doctors.

As he’s also an author of bestsellers at the same time, a psychosomatic
doctor (H.E. Richter, member of the Social-Democratic Party) had to examine
and to report on the SPK. He diagnosed a so-called "Gruppen-Ego" ("Group-Ego").
However, this medical doctor is simultaneously a poet, as said before.
In his bestseller "DIE GRUPPE", he’s blackening some of the hermetic carriers
of his "Group-Ego" as pyromaniac fire-raisers comparable to Michael
Kohlhaas [cf. H.v.Kleist]. In that terror-verdict, pronounced in advance,
not even the actual RICHTER (judge) had joined eventually.

In the one as well as in the other case, thermomimetics had to stand
up against pyrotechnics, the body, anchoring in the counterfort [Widerlager]
which is warmth, and its carriers, the patients, against the Gestalt
with which they were branded so artistically [kunstreich aufgebrannte
Gestalt].
It remains to keep in mind that body and warmth are each other counterfort
and base [Stuetzpunkt], as are the Gestalt and the voice
for their parts. However, the body is the plane of all that is called
earth in the re-volt of the Other [Erde im Umbruch des Anders].
The whole system of voice and Gestalt: a soap bubble. What is called
somatic (doctrine of the body, body studies), precisely psychosomatic,
somatology, body-Ego, etc. has to do with the body
even less than the dog on earth with his zodiac sign (canis majoris/minoris),
when he is yapping at it.

Quite in general, that what matters in all this is not the body anyway.
It doesn’t exist as a single one. The single "body" is but Gestalt,
Gestalt
of singularized life (Lebensgestalt) and be it even
as life associated to others [vereinzelte Lebensgestalt
zu mehreren], with possessions and belongings, seat, spirit and voice.
A Gestalt even as half a portion of Eros. And still
Gestalt
even with skin and bones. Garbage [Stueckwerk].

The body, however, is hot stuff [heisse Sache]. We discover it
easily in illness, but nowhere else.

Nowadays, illness disturbs and turns from down to up [aufstoeren]
warmth, worldwide and in masses. Asceticism and ritual, the technical arsenal
of the mythical experiment in general, including the educational system
up to now, are being outdated by illness. The iatroclastic consequences
are to be drawn directly by achieving change by thermometizising [probeaendern].
The conscience is but the weakest re-flection [Abglanz] of all systems
of reproduction, and all of them, based on respiration [Luft, air],
on nourishment, and on idioplasma [Keimbahn, cf. A. Weismann], are
completely structured by the medical practice [aerztlich gestaltet].
It’s true, that illness is a ubiquitous situation of exception [Ausnahmezustand,
allueberall], an open limit which surmounts itself in its process [prozessierende
offene Grenze]. But the liberated warmth out of illness, which is bodily
intensifying the collectives by increasing their strength giving body to
them, this warmth is advanced and has become the most guarded secret of
the medical profession, the most important secret of state. So many
and diverse in their shape (Gestalt) as the blood cells are,
so many and diverse are, for instance, the blood cancersintheir
Gestalt.
All around the radioactive luminous spectrum [Lichtgestalt, Lichtgebein],
for instance. But without worrying about luminous rays, cancer and figurations
of the I (Ego) [Ichgestalten, Husserl, Besitzfixierung, fixation
to property, etc.], to the body only warmth is inalienable [unseizable,
unveraeusserlich]. Warmth is lifting it coherently up, above and beyond
any Gestalt and also above itself, bodily perceptible [koerperlich
spuerbar]. Thus thermomimetically.

Thus it is by thermomimetics that we discover the substantial criterion
(the atomon "eidos", the "differencia" specifica)of
the specified individual [Gattungsindividuum], which we, here in
the initial part, have raised to the exponent outstanding of the connection
of infection, of ignition, and of inflammation. For, the substantial criterion
can never be vocal or other determinations [Bestimmungen]
and Gestalten (configurations), and reproductions like: "thinking
being", "place of fulfilment of contradictions" [Erfuellungsort der
Widersprueche], "the animal that can make a promise" [Mensch, das
Tier, das versprechen kann], "being characterized by lack" [Mangelwesen],
" biped with upright posture", "zoon politicon", "eccentric position
[exzentrische Positionalitaet] capable of laughing and crying".
The
specified individual becomes an actively producing reality by means of
the shapeless scheme of his mass-body. [Das Gattungsindividuum wird
aktive herstellende Wirklichkeit am gestaltlosen Schema seines Massenkoerpers].

There is no rigidity in warmth, that’s why it makes it so specific to
us. Its earth-connection is of an immediate, magical kind, and it is not
of pyrotechnical, not of medical kind. That’s what makes our sense such
light, and the conscience so certain. The specified individual is a relation
that is to be made here and now, every time and everywhere, which, however,
can never and nowhere be, when it is not being brought about through
illness [wo Krankheit Kategorie seiner Herstellung ist].

Life and death are banalities in the determination [Allerweltsbestimmungen],
no criterion warmth. Perhaps artefacts [Artefakte, Iatrogenitaeten]
however, Gestalt anyway, body in no way. The arché
is the unreachable bank [Ufer] of the medical doctor. That’s bad
enough for the arts. And even worse for the medical doctor.